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Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Amukta Island in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 12, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.936S, -172.0888WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 83 km SW of Amukta Island, Alaska (52 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/06/16 / 2016-06-18 20:36:13 / June 18, 2016 @ 8:36 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000664p. Event ids that are associated: ak13660220, us2000664p. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:36:13 / 9:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.8 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -172.0888° West, latitude 51.936° North, depth = 30.8 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 83 km SW of Amukta Island, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -172.0888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.936° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km SW of Amukta Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-18 20:36:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-12 21:42:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 199 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000664p Id of event.
Event Code 2000664p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13660220,us2000664p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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